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The Courant’s arts picks for July 6-12 feature an outdoor orchestra, comedians, author Candace Bushnell, 1980s pop stars and ...
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for a Texas death row inmate who is seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution. The 6-3 decision in favor of Ruben ...
The Supreme Court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate who's seeking DNA testing to show he should be ineligible for execution.
Richard Gerald Jordan, the longest-serving man on Mississippi's death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer's wife in a violent ransom ...
Prison officials served death row inmate Oscar Franklin Smith his last meal Wednesday night, about 16 hours before he's scheduled to die by lethal injection.
PARCHMAN, Miss. (AP) — The longest-serving man on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ...
Richard Jordan, who spent 48 years on Mississippi’s death row, received an execution by lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Parchman.
Mississippi has executed the longest-serving man on its death row nearly 50 years after he was convicted of murder. Richard Gerald Jordan was a Vietnam veteran who was found guilty ...
Missouri is one of two states where a judge can hand down death when juries cannot agree unanimously on a sentence.